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This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2016
Archifutures Vol. 3: The site. A field guide to making the future of architecture
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This volume is a call to practical action leading on from the theoretical approaches seen in Volume 2: The Studio. It presents a further selection from the Future Architecture platform call for ideas, and focuses firmly on the nitty-gritty of practice with projects and strategies that are on-site or site ready to shake up that future. These are the inspirational solutions and ideas, which could soon be transforming the landscape of architecture and our cities, reasserting the agency of what architecture in its widest sense can offer and mean.
Contemporary Architecture
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This volume focus in particular on the cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of “future” really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole. Comprising speculative visions, essays and texts, this volume serves as a theoretical backdrop for the practical(...)
Contemporary Architecture
October 2016
Archifutures Vol. 2: the studio. A field guide to making the future of architecture
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This volume focus in particular on the cutting-edge thinking and wider theoretical questions and themes that underpin the series, from reflections upon what our ideas of “future” really mean to the changing role of the architecture profession as a whole. Comprising speculative visions, essays and texts, this volume serves as a theoretical backdrop for the practical approaches seen in Volume 3: The Site. Includes visions, essays and texts from contributors: Ana Jeinic, Miloš Kosec, Clément Blanchet, Amateur Cities, Liam Young, Something Fantastic, Merve Bedir, Tomaž Pipan, Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Tiago Torres-Campos and Reinier de Graaf.
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''Data Cities'' explains how rocket science and electronic technologies are transforming how we live and understand architecture, as networks of semiconductors, satellites, scanners, and sensors convert light into unprecedented formats and contents of information. Flows of data will inform our future behaviors in physical, virtual, and hybrid-reality situations, and(...)
Data cities: how satellites are transforming architecture and design
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''Data Cities'' explains how rocket science and electronic technologies are transforming how we live and understand architecture, as networks of semiconductors, satellites, scanners, and sensors convert light into unprecedented formats and contents of information. Flows of data will inform our future behaviors in physical, virtual, and hybrid-reality situations, and architecture and cities are being reinvented as not merely static structures, but places that pulse.
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Des structures primaires aux créations contemporaines, le rouge apparaît comme l’une des couleurs les plus traditionnelles et en même temps les plus avant-gardistes du monde construit. Ce livre présente une sélection de 150 édifices rouges – du Petersen Automotive Museum de LA et sa façade rouge cerise et argent au Musée historique d’État de Moscou et ses murs rouge(...)
Rouge : architecture monochrome
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Des structures primaires aux créations contemporaines, le rouge apparaît comme l’une des couleurs les plus traditionnelles et en même temps les plus avant-gardistes du monde construit. Ce livre présente une sélection de 150 édifices rouges – du Petersen Automotive Museum de LA et sa façade rouge cerise et argent au Musée historique d’État de Moscou et ses murs rouge brique. Cet ouvrage invite à apprécier d’une autre manière le monde construit, avec pour seul et unique critère l’esthétique de la couleur rouge.
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Ce livre regroupe une sélection de bâtiments qui en région Grand Est ont obtenu le label « patrimoine du XXe siècle », devenu depuis le 7 juillet 2016 le label « architecture contemporaine remarquable ». Dus à des architectes de renom international (Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel), à des maîtres d’œuvre plus modestes ou à des ingénieurs, les exemples proposés sont soit(...)
Contemporary Architecture
March 2018
Architecture du XXe siècle, Grand Est
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Ce livre regroupe une sélection de bâtiments qui en région Grand Est ont obtenu le label « patrimoine du XXe siècle », devenu depuis le 7 juillet 2016 le label « architecture contemporaine remarquable ». Dus à des architectes de renom international (Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel), à des maîtres d’œuvre plus modestes ou à des ingénieurs, les exemples proposés sont soit exceptionnels dans leur programme (la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme à Strasbourg ou l’attraction « Anaconda » du parc Walygator, près de Metz) soit parfaitement représentatifs d’une typologie singulière à certains moments du siècle (comme la Reconstruction post-conflits, la construction de grands sièges sociaux d’entreprises dans les années 1970 ou les piscines Tournesol) et font appel à des matériaux et des techniques de mise en œuvre variés.
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Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure — drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted — most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely(...)
Contemporary Architecture
January 2019
An unfinished encyclopedia of scale figures without architecture
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Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure — drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted — most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms.
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The exhibition installation designed by Cino Zucchi Architects for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice becomes the occasion for a series of thematic readings on the works of the Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, gathered here in a volume edited by Zucchi and Orsina Simona Pierini. The architect’s multifunctional building complex in Corso(...)
Everyday Wonders - Luigi Caccia Dominioni And Milano: The Corso Italia Complex
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The exhibition installation designed by Cino Zucchi Architects for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice becomes the occasion for a series of thematic readings on the works of the Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, gathered here in a volume edited by Zucchi and Orsina Simona Pierini. The architect’s multifunctional building complex in Corso Italia, a “silent masterpiece” which impacted contemporary architectural thinking, unfurls a complex spatial narration from the scale of the city to that of material and detail. The book examines this reality through original documents from the LCD archive, new photography, and specially made 3D reconstructions.
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The Netherlands has been and continues to be a testing ground where the future of labor is reimagined. Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, ''Work, Body, Leisure'' analyzes spatial arrangements and protocols molded for the interaction between humans and machines; spaces that challenge(...)
May 2018
Work, body, leisure. Dutch pavilion, 16th international Biennale di Venezia
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The Netherlands has been and continues to be a testing ground where the future of labor is reimagined. Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, ''Work, Body, Leisure'' analyzes spatial arrangements and protocols molded for the interaction between humans and machines; spaces that challenge traditional distinctions between work and leisure; the ways in which evolving notions of labor have categorized and defined bodies at particular moments in time; and the legal, cultural, and technical infrastructures that enable their exploitation, with the aim of fostering new forms of creativity and responsibility within the architectural field in response to emerging technologies of automation.
On the water: Palisade Bay
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On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land andcity. The proposal is sited on the water, along the(...)
Contemporary Architecture
May 2010
On the water: Palisade Bay
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On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land andcity. The proposal is sited on the water, along the coastal edge and within the local communities. It presents a new coastal planning strategy which not only mitigates potential damage from storms but also provides new ground forrecreation, ecologies, agriculture and urban development.With climate change and sea level rise acting as catalysts for this work, a quantitative analysis of dynamic systems serves as the foundation for this new soft infrastructure whichboth enriches the ecology of the urban estuary and creates a vibrant culture on the water.
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This book will provide a definitive reader, compiling essays from previously published texts and newly commissioned essays from leading academics, architects and other specialists, each text is prefaced by a brief critical and accessible introduction by Mark Garcia and illustrated with the first-ever collection of spatial design diagrams by architects, engineers,(...)
March 2010
The diagrams of architecture: AD reader
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This book will provide a definitive reader, compiling essays from previously published texts and newly commissioned essays from leading academics, architects and other specialists, each text is prefaced by a brief critical and accessible introduction by Mark Garcia and illustrated with the first-ever collection of spatial design diagrams by architects, engineers, academics and designers from around the world. Case-study single-page and double page spread ‘capsules’ distributed throughout the book describe the creation, meaning and importance of the most important diagrams in today’s leading-edge exemplars of interior, architectural, landscape and urban design.